Flock-wise

adv. [f. FLOCK sb.¹ + -WISE.] In flocks or in a flock or group.

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1837. Longf., Frithiof’s Homestead, 10.

	’Mid these scattered, now here and now there, were numberless flocks of
	Sheep with fleeces white, as thou seest the white-looking stray clouds,
	Flock-wise spread o’er the heavenly vault, when it bloweth in spring-time.
	Ibid. (1855), Hiaw., xvi. 248.
	Round him hovered, fluttered, rustled
	Hiawatha’s mountain chickens,
	Flock-wise swept and wheeled about him,
	Almost brushed him with their pinions.

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